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Originally Posted by Al.
Maybe its time to dust off the April Fool of the 'My Little Pony' rpg and look at Rupert the Bear or Bob the Builder or Barney the Purple Dinosaur BRP supplements  |
This is really off-topic, but since it's about licensing and IPs...
I hope that WotC knows their market, and Hasbro theirs, but I was literally stupefied that they thought a
My Little Pony RPG was cause for a joke.
I have a 16-month old daughter, and when she's a couple of years older, I fully intend on seeing if she's interested in playing some RPG-like games. I've got friends with kids and they thought that a MLP RPG would have been outstandingly cool.
How the world's largest RPG company can be owned by one of the world's largest toy manufacturers, and there be
absolutely no cross-line development is beyond me.
If I were a WotC higher-up, I'd be looking at stuff like
My Little Pony, Axis & Allies, HeroScape, Transformers, and
GI Joe and wondering what games we could make out of those properties. Or I'd notice all of the IPs that Hasbro has the game rights to, such as
The Simpsons or Disney, and see if something could be done with those.
But then, I've never figured out why WotC's never come up with a hybrid of D&D and
Magic...